Le Jeu des Eschets ("The Game of Chess") -- The 1669 1st French Edition
by Gioachino Greco, Calabrois
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Waccabuc, New York, United States
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About This Item
Paris: Chez N. Pepingve (Avec Privilege du Roi), 1669. Full leather. The 1669 1st French edition --and 1st published edition-- of Gioachino Greco's seminal "Le Jeu des Eschets". Greco (c. 1600 - c. 1634) was the strongest player in Europe in the early 17th century and among the first to record entire games, not just particular openings or combinations. His vast influence (as cited by H.J.R. Murray, among other historians of the game) is keenly felt to this day. This copy is likely in its original full-leather binding, certainly in a contemporary-to-the-period binding. Solid and VG, with minor, forgivable wear along the edges and the preliminaries. The interior though is very clean, the pages surprisingly crisp and clean. Originally recorded by hand in Greco's native Italian, here translated --and issued in book form-- for the first time.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Appledore Books, ABAA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 20514
- Title
- Le Jeu des Eschets ("The Game of Chess") -- The 1669 1st French Edition
- Author
- Gioachino Greco, Calabrois
- Format/Binding
- Full leather
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Chez N. Pepingve (Avec Privilege du Roi)
- Place of Publication
- Paris
- Date Published
- 1669
- Keywords
- rare chess books, rare antiquarian chess books, chess theorist Gioachino Greco
- Bookseller catalogs
- chess;
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Waccabuc, New York
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- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Crisp
- A term often used to indicate a book's new-like condition. Indicates that the hinges are not loosened. A book described as crisp...
- VG
- Very Good condition can describe a used book that does show some small signs of wear - but no tears - on either binding or...